Electric bike crimes

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/23/5350

Version Date: 29/09/2023

The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information.

Data Source:

Crime data from UNIFI; Incident data from STORM; Collision data from CRASH

Data Processing: 

Q1:

Using Qlikview report "UNIFI Crime Lists", filtered on:

all Offence Groups except "Non Notifiable";

Date Entered 01/01/2020 to 14/11/2022;

MO Text Search expression: ("*e-bike*" or "*electric bike*")

Q2:

Qlikview "Road Traffic Collisions" report, filtered on:

Collision Date 01/01/2020 to 14/08/2023.

Data exported.

"E-Bike" or "Electric Bike" searched for in Collision Description field.

Data Limitations:

The data relies on the consistency of use of the terms "e-bike" and "electric bike".

How many crimes have been reported in the following years (2020,2021 and 2022 up to 14th Nov) that have mentioned "e-bikes" or "electric bikes"? Please break this down by year.

The table below shows the number of crimes reported from 1st January 2020 to 14th November 2022, where the text string "e-bike" or "electric bike" is present in the MO Text: 

 *To 14th Nov

How many accidents that the police have been called to in the last four calendar years (2020,2021,2022,2023 so far) have involved "e-bikes" or "electric bikes"? Please break this down by year and provide as much detail as possible about the nature of the incident

The table below shows the number of collisions from 1st January 2020 to 14th August 2023, where the text string "e-bike" or "electric bike" is present in the Collision Description field:

**To 14th Aug